Published December 3, 2025
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Mauremys caspica
Authors/Creators
- 1. Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Taibah University, Al-Madinah Al-Munawwarah, Saudi Arabia
- 2. Department of Environmental Health, College of Public Health, Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University, Dharan, Saudi Arabia
- 3. Department of Biology, The University of Jordan, Amman, Jordan
- 4. Department of Biology, Jordan University of Science & Technology, Irbid, Jordan
Description
Mauremys caspica (Gmelin, 1774)
Fig. 5 A
Material examined.
Tarout Island, 6 September 2024, irrigation canal. Juvenile specimens were captured and released.
Remarks.
The Caspian Turtle seems to be common in the irrigation canals in Tarout Island. It was previously recorded from Dharan (Haas 1957), Hufof, Al Qatif, and Al Uqayr (Gasperetti et al. 1993). Aloufi (2009) studied the distribution of the Caspian Turtle in eastern Saudi Arabia. He stated that this species was very common and widespread in the Al Hassa region and extends from the northern to the southern and eastern irrigation canals. Its presence in Tarout Island represents introduction by the locals.
Notes
Published as part of Aloufi, Abdulhadi, Al Zayer, Mohammed, Abu Baker, Mohammad A. & Amr, Zuhair S., 2025, Reptiles and amphibians of the Saudi islands in the Arabian Gulf, pp. 379-391 in Herpetozoa 38 on pages 379-391, DOI: 10.3897/herpetozoa.38.e172180
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Gmelin
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Order
- Cryptodira
- Family
- Geoemydidae
- Genus
- Mauremys
- Species
- caspica
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Mauremys caspica (Gmelin, 1774) sec. Aloufi, Zayer, Baker & Amr, 2025
References
- Haas G (1957) Some amphibians and reptiles from Arabia. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences 29: 47–86.
- Gasperetti J, Stimson AF, Miller JD, Ross JP, Gasperetti PR (1993) Turtles of Arabia. Fauna of Saudi Arabia 13: 170–367.
- Aloufi AA (2009) Ecological aspects of freshwater turtle Mauremys caspica siebenrocki, in Al Hassa Region, Saudi Arabia. Ph. D. Thesis. King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, 288 pp.